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Oil Price Drop Hits Businesses

L.A. Business Journal

The sudden collapse in oil prices has roiled the local oil industry, prompting producers to start shutting down wells, oil well service companies to lay off staff and refineries to reduce operations.

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8 Creative Pricing Strategies Most Startups Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, I’m accustomed to seeing primarily the simple traditional product pricing strategies , usually driven by competitor prices, or cost plus a reasonable margin. I often wonder whether you as the entrepreneur have worked as hard on your pricing strategy as you have on your innovative solution.

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Savings.com Pricing Comparison Service Targets Amazon

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Los Angeles-based Savings.com said this morning that it has launched a new, pricing comparison shopping service called PriceJump --which specifically helps consumers find better deals than Amazon.com. According to Savings.com, its new search engine will instantly compare Amazon product prices to prices from around the web.

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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. They are: Price. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality.

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FreeConferenceCall.com Launches Video Conferencing Service, Huddle

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Long Beach-based free conference calling service FreeConferenceCall.com says it is launching itself into the video conferencing market, with a new service called Huddle. According to the company, it will allow the first 10,000 customers of the service to pick their own price for whatever they think the service is worth.

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My First Book – Pricing Your Practice by Eric Greenspan

Eric Greenspan

In particular, it’s about pricing for service providers namely accountants, bookkeepers and business owners. But it really can be applied to any service professional or really any profession. The post My First Book – Pricing Your Practice by Eric Greenspan appeared first on Eric Greenspan.

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Hulu Drops Pricing On Streaming TV

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Los Angeles-based Hulu said on Wednesday that it is dropping the pricing on its ad-supported service, Hulu Originals, and will offer up the service for only $5.99 The new pricing--which goes into effect in February--is a drop from the service's current price of $7.99 READ MORE>>.

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